PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.33
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (13 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (12 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
none
A common browser
Datastorage PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
~~subscript~~
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
; term : definition
: term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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